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No. 655,316. Patented Aug. |4, |900.

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(Application md mar. 19, 1900,)

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screwed or soldered into holes in one side of `can be firmly held in one hand and the de- IIENRI l?. DE VOGEL, OF SURBITON, ENGLAND.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,816, dated August 14, 1900. Application led March 19, 19,00. Serial No. 9,273. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRI PIERRE DE Vo- GEL, gentleman, a subject of the Queen of the Netherlands, residing at Kambara, UX- bridge road, Surbiton, in the county of Surrey, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to combs formed with hollow teeth through which curative essences or solutions can be applied to the scalp of the head Without moistening the hair above the roots. The improvements have for their object to so form such combs that they can not only be readily cleaned, but also that they livery of liquid from the points of the teeth be controlled by the same hand, and, further, that the points of all the teeth may be simultaneously applied closely to the scalp of the head, even though the comb be made some three inches or more in length.

The back of the comb consists of a curved metal tube closed at both ends by screwestoppers, which can be removed to facilitate cleaning. The teeth are so many tapering tubes the tube and extend outward from the tube approximately at right angles to its plane of curvature. From the center of the opposite side of the tube extends a screw-socket, to which a nozzle carrying a flexible ball can be screwed. The nozzle is of such a length that it can be held rmly between the thumb and fingers adjacent to it, while the ball can be held in the palm of the hand and squeezed when desired by the other fingers. The ball serves not only as a portion of the handle,

but also as a reservoir for containing the essence or solution to be applied.

The comb is shown in the drawings annexed.

Figure lis a side view; Fig. 2, an end View, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section.

A is the curved metal tube forming the back of the comb. B B are screw-Stoppers which close its ends.

C C are the tapering tubes forming the teeth.

D is the screw-socket extending from the opposite side of the tube.

E is the nozzle, screwing at one end into the socket and at its opposite end ttin g into an outlet-orifice of a flexible ball F.

The extremities of the tubes C forming the teeth are preferably slightly fused, so as to form around them small thickened rings to prevent their scratchingthe scalp of the head.

To fill the ball F with the liquid which is to be applied, the nozzle E can be unscrewed from the socket D and the ball then squeezed and when the nozzle has been immersed in the liquid again allowed to expand.

What I claim is- A comb havin g the back formed of a curved metal tube closed by removable Stoppers at its ends, and having hollow teeth extending out from one side of the tube approximately at right angles to the plane of the tubes curvature, a socket extending out from the opposite side of the tube, a nozzle iitting at one end to this socket and a flexible ball attached to the opposite endof the socket.

HENRI P. DE VOGEL.

Witnesses:

ROBERT B. RANsEoRD, ARTHUR OARPMAEL, Jr. 

